Chattin’ live on the NCAA tourney, propped-up-feet and all
The channel I'm watching, alas, is NOT truTV. (Photography and pedicure by M. Bradley)
Charlotte — Welcome to our third annual live chat off the Thursday afternoon NCAA tournament games. The first two years weren’t without controversy. In 2009 you folks made fun of my TV. Last year the Milwaukee Hyatt impelled me to relocate to Major Goolsby, a sports bar across the street, by delivering the sobering news that it did not offer room service for lunch.
(For breakfast, yes. For dinner, yes. Just not for lunch. Are you kidding me?)
But I digress. And now I move to this year’s issue: Of the 65 channels available on the wide-screen TV here at the Civic Center Marriott, truTV isn’t among them. I confess that I’d never heard of truTV until it came a carrier of NCAA games, but now I know what it is. And it’s not here. So I’m going to miss those games today.
My life: Drama untold.
And here we are again. I’m pretty sure the Marriott offers at least a tuna sandwich if not truTV, so I should be OK. For early games we’ve got Clemson-West Virginia, Butler-Old Dominion (though I won’t see it), Louisville-Morehead State and Temple-Penn State. Those are pretty good games, you’ll have to concede. And I’ll try my best to offer semi-cogent commentary until around 4 p.m., at which time I need to head for the arena for Washington’s media availability.
Thanks to all who entered Bradley’s Bracket Fiasco. (Entries are closed.) Thanks to all who dare to hang with me this afternoon. And away, as the Great One would say, we go.
By Mark Bradley
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Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:28 pm
I’m sorry. We’ll have to disagree on Tony Greene. I think he does a fine job.
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
3:28 pm
Dogs (especially dawgs) rule.
gdawginkalamazoo
March 17th, 2011
3:30 pm
Hey Mark, looking at that picture you posted for this blog,
Is your man cave the breakfast nook?
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:30 pm
You got to love the OVC…
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:31 pm
No, I’m in a hotel.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:31 pm
I have a theory that these, ahem, First Round(Play-in) games are going to move us closer to a 16 seed beating a 1 seed. One year the Selection goofs are going to seriously under-seed a good team and stick them in one of these play in games. That team is going to get a chance to get the jitters out and get really hot going into their game with the 1 seed. Eventually a team is going to stay hot long enough to beat a 1. The advantage of having a game under its belt is going to propel a 16 seed to a win, I believe.
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
3:32 pm
I hope nnnnnnn napa is not advertising all weekend.
GT Trumpet
March 17th, 2011
3:32 pm
I forget why I picked Louisville to get to my Elite Eight….
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:32 pm
Can we trade Princeton for the Hawks?
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:32 pm
Louisville in some trouble — down one, one guard hurt, the other in foul straits.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
3:33 pm
Do all Louisville guards carry the ball when dribbling?
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
3:33 pm
too many games going on at once.. can’t pick one to watch!
GT Trumpet
March 17th, 2011
3:33 pm
I picked them to upset Kansas! Hopefully they can pull this one out and get motivated.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:33 pm
Uh oh, Morehead up 2, they’re rising up(I couldn’t help myself).
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:34 pm
I just hope Rex Ryan is not surfing the web (regarding Mark Bradley’s picture)!
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
3:35 pm
trumpet so did i and it’s not looking good!
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:35 pm
All guards everywhere carry the ball.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:36 pm
It is not about motivation, Morehead has been good for a couple of years…
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:36 pm
Eagles by five. Louisville is in for it now.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:37 pm
I did not pick Louisville in the Final Four. Thought about it.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:37 pm
I had Louisville in the Sweet 16, goodbye iPad, goodbye sweatshirt. goodbye glory.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:38 pm
Morehead by five with the ball.
FalconIce
March 17th, 2011
3:38 pm
I ignorantly picked Louisville to win this game.
Come on Cards!!!!!!!
GT Trumpet
March 17th, 2011
3:39 pm
I feel your pain abe…
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:39 pm
Bounces are going Morehead’s way.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:39 pm
I knew my bracket had too much chalk.
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
3:40 pm
Hey MB, how’s Terrence Moore doing these days? You guys friends on Facebook or anything?
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:40 pm
It’s hard to play when you’re a favorite and you’re behind. Lot of pressure
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:41 pm
MSU up one. Inside three min
gdawginkalamazoo
March 17th, 2011
3:41 pm
In a hotel? Sounds like solitude and a peacful enviroment to watch a lot of basketball.
Looks like Coach Rick Porccini better get those Cardinals in gear. Who on here picked Morehead State to win? I know I didn’t.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
3:41 pm
I picked Louisville to lose to Vandy in the next round
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:42 pm
That was one of the greatest days in NCAA history… UCLA slapped by Princeton and Earl Boykins & Eastern Michigan left Chris Collins & Duke crying like Tim Tebow in Indianapolis! It was beautiful!!!
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
3:43 pm
PSU gave up more points in the first half to Temple tthey gave up in their entire game against UW – their LBs must be injured
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:43 pm
U of L leading.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:43 pm
I saw Terrence Moore on the news this past summer. He was calling the Braves’ front office racist because they didn’t have enough African American players. What an idiot.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:44 pm
Faried almost banked in a tough jumper that would have made it a three-point lead. Instead Justice hits in transition.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
3:45 pm
I have Morehead on another bracket that will go unnamed…
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:45 pm
Meanwhile, in Tampa, Princeton takes the lead over UK. UK promptly ties it up.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
3:46 pm
I was in Louisville this time last week on my way back from beautiful Danville, KY and Augusta, KY – the Cardinals’ fans are easier to deal with than the Wildcat fans.
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
3:46 pm
I once wrote Terrence an email expressing dissatisfaction (in a strong but by no means vulgar or profane way) with one of his columns. He proceeded to forward that email to the tippity-top boss of my employer at the time, asking if this was how employees in that organization spent their company time. Said tippity-top boss told Mr. Moore politely to suck it.
Great guy, that Terrence Moore.
StGeneral
March 17th, 2011
3:46 pm
Mark – any chance – c’mon, any chance at all – that Brad Stevens would come to Georgia Tech? If I were Radakovich, I’d make him say no before I went to anyone else…
Josh
March 17th, 2011
3:46 pm
Would love to see AJC.com get a real Chat Application rather than simply a blog-comment-chat feature.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:46 pm
Probably because there are fewer of them, Paul.
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
3:47 pm
cardinals!!!!!
gdawginkalamazoo
March 17th, 2011
3:48 pm
Look for Oakland University to make waves.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:48 pm
We’ve talked about it, Josh. But we kind of like this way.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
3:48 pm
U of L up by four. Morehead with the rock.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
3:49 pm
Good point Mark – Down in Danville everyone seemed to be a KY fan (apart from a couple of TN grads I was dealing with)
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
3:49 pm
Much like his idols Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Mr. Moore is unconcerned with his own faults while constantly finding fault with others. And with that, I’ll return to basketball befoe Mark decides I’m no longer allowed to be part of the blog.
SoGA
March 17th, 2011
3:49 pm
first half, but princeton keeping things too close for comfort…
thank you cardinals, don’t do anything stupid in 42 seconds